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The Free Bears of Bears Armed | Quod's back? Malabra? "Hrarroom!" ("Greetings!") to both of you. :) Malabra, I have a copy of your old flag if you need it. You may have noticed that the region has a new map: As far as the Bears are concerned, at least , the world shown on the old map still exists as well, as an 'alternative reality', and we still hold our own lands there as well as our 'New Territories' on the current map, so you could simply keep your old location as our south-eastern neighbour. Quintessence of dust, United New England, and Gardavasque | |
The Social Democracy of Gardavasque | ||
The Democratic Federation of Lauchenoiria | You wrote Prevention of Torture! One of my favourite WA resolutions, I referenced it a lot during my RPs. Lovely to "meet" you! Laeral, Xiomera, and Gardavasque | |
The Italian Protectorate of Res Publica Melitensis | Hi IDU! | GOVERNMENT | HOME OFFICE | FOREIGN OFFICE | WA OFFICE | DISPATCHES | | ABOUT | STAFF | MODERATION COMMITTEE | EVENTS | REPORTS | Welcome to the European Writing Contest! The Final Showcase is finally here! Take a look! When will it start and when will it finish? What kind of work do we want? How can you participate? Rules and Requirements
Finally, being a resident in Europe or not changes the awards you can win. To be considered a European participant you must either:
Judges and Awards
Our judges will evaluate your submission and select the winners of our various awards such as: Overall Best, Best European Writing, Best Foreign Writing, Most Original Story, Best Character(s), Best Setting, and more! Help For any further question, contact either Regnum Italiae, Republic of satherland or South St Maarten, we are here to help you! See you soon! | |
The Democratic Federation of Lauchenoiria | Our most recent regional update is up now! Greetings all! Welcome to the International Democratic Union’s Autumn 2020 Regional Update. Autumn, or Fall as it is known on the other side of the Atlantic from where I reside, is a busy time for Nationstates players with both N-Day and Z-Day taking place in this season. In the IDU, it has been exceptionally busy indeed, with lots of roleplay events taking place. Contents of this update: I hope you all enjoy the update! Lauchenoiria * Recent Roleplay in the IDU Roleplay is one of the things that sets the IDU apart and makes it an interesting region to reside in. Among current RP events and news: - the Artists of Progress RP continues to churn, with new twists and turns keeping it interesting. The latest Xiomeran ruler, Calhualyana, appears bent on preserving the Empire in the face of the ongoing revolt in the west. That revolt has spawned a new separatist state, Huenya, along with multiple other would-be independent former Xiomeran territories. As the Xiomeran Empire disintegrates and Calhualyana struggles to hold it together, the former ruler Yauhmi leads unprecedented reforms in the west. With two versions of the future at odds, and peace talks in the nation of Laeral looming, who knows where things will end up? You will, if you follow the RP: https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2169&p=21860#p21860 - Terrorism has struck the IDU, as separatists in the restive Kaijan region of the Slokais Islands have launched a string of attacks against the Tribal Council and central government. As investigators from multiple countries try to stop the terror, an online app appears to be the key to the terrorist strikes. Will the terrorists strike again before investigators can stop them? Find out here: https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2241&p=21878#p21878 - The newly independent state of Maraix names its first diplomats, leading to some rather undiplomatic discussion among residents: https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2232&p=21848#p21848 - In Sunemia, progressives rolled to dominating wins in legislative elections: https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2233&p=21871#p21871 - In Lauchenoiria, a government building is occupied by environmentalists (or eco-terrorists, depending on who you ask): https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2169&p=21876#p21876 There's quite a bit going on, so take a look and get involved. The IDU Wiki - A Place to Expand The Wiki website for the International Democratic Union is an interesting place, for both developing your own nation and seeing how your peers develop theirs. It's a huge vault of information that is open for anyone to see! It's great for when you're writing up roleplay posts, or for storing your ideas somewhere where everyone can see! Now, I must admit, I haven't been as vigilant as my IDU comrades about writing Wiki articles (I only have four to my name, a couple of which are short and empty). But even though I haven't filled out a bunch of articles yet, there are still an absolute ton of detailed articles carefully written by other members of the IDU! Take, for example, Lauchenoira. She runs two nations in the IDU, Lauchenoiria and Kerlile. And though she has detailed her nations a lot in roleplay posts as well, her wiki articles are astounding! Just by looking at the Country categories for both her nations, she has written thirty-two and thirty-four articles for Lauchenoira and Kerlile respectively. That's sixty-six articles! Not to mention that almost every one of them has a decent amount of information attached to them. Another one to mention: Legionas. He has contributed a total of forty articles to the wiki, which is four times the number of articles I have contributed! And even though some of those articles are just starter articles, the amount of ideas he's transcribed, both on the Wiki and in roleplay, is truly astonishing. And finally, I would like to recognize Sanctaria for maintaining and developing the wiki. Without him, the IDU Wiki wouldn't exist. He had added a surprising amount of Wiki Templates, giving nations a way to add the articles that they want. He's also contributed fifty-five articles of his own to the Wiki. It's safe to say that he has contributed a great amount to the Wiki community. There are a ton of more people that I have not mentioned, and I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to everyone who has put valuable time and effort into making the wiki a thriving and information-rich place. I highly recommend that anyone interested in joining the IDU take a look at the Wiki page. Here's the link, if you're interested! https://www.theidu.us/wiki/Main_Page Case Study: Events in Slokais In Slokais Island a terror group from the region of Kaijan has carried out attacks against Slokais's Tribal Council and the central government. Investigators trying to track down the perpetrators have found an online application called Golden Circle, which appears to be connecting members of different terrorist organizations to exchange information or collaborate. In other news in Slokais elections are upcoming as well as elections for the Slokaisan Legislature, also known as the House; the National Alliance Party and their allies are projected to win while in the presidential election there is expected to be a 5-way runoff between National Alliance, Centrist, Green, Conservative and New Right. They may also be a 3rd runoff a few weeks after the December 30th Election. N-Day 5: You Fall Down, You Get Back Up For the fifth time, Nationstates devolved into the kind of alarming state of mutually assured destruction that is the annual nuclear war themed N-Day event. This year, the IDU joined the Potato Alliance (in-game faction name An Alliance of Potatoes). During previous years, we have joined forces with our friends and allies in Forest in the Canopy faction, which this year merged with the Potato-themed faction originally founded by Spiritus. Our faction got off to a rocky start when, before the end of the second hour, we were targeted with tens of thousands of nukes pointed at us by last year’s winners and the faction to beat, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Despite our goal of achieving zero radiation, a goal that has always been upheld by Canopy, this was to prove impossible when we received our first nuclear impacts and resulting radiation just after 8am UTC. This was a huge disappointment to many in the Alliance, particularly former Canopy members. The Horsemen may have thought we were dead but they were, however, wrong. After deciding to adopt some guerilla tactics, jumping in and out of the Horsemen’s own faction to accumulate production and launch against them, we triumphantly returned to An Alliance of Potatoes after ensuring the Horsemen received their own dose of radioactive destruction. Our return heralded the beginning of a comeback unknown in previous N-Days, and we were determined to get our score, approximately -61,000 back into the positive. We achieved that, and more besides. Not only did we manage to climb back from the last place the Horsemen had bombarded us into, we managed to gain a place in the top ten, climbing ever-higher. At some point in the final hours, as I slept, we briefly snagged the top spot, before returning to second behind the Augustin Alliance. It was there that we finished N-Day, having returned from destruction like a phoenix rising from the ashes. And the Horsemen? Well, they were destroyed, falling to last place and over 800,000 rads. Overall, it was a very exciting and unpredictable N-Day, with many incidents for the record books - most radiation, biggest comeback. Puppets won the day, with puppet masters responsible for much of the score and much of the shielding which protected many factions from absolute destruction. We are disappointed in our failure to achieve zero radiation, but the comeback of the Potato Alliance will be remembered, and we had fun - the most important thing. Z-Day 9 in the IDU Z-Day for the IDU was a bit of an oddity compared to previous years, due to the clever tricks played on us in this year's version. It was unclear that the event would even be taking place, and when it did actually happen, the IDU and its residents were caught a bit off guard. However, the residents of the region quickly sprang into action, manning their stations and helping to beat back the zombie scourge from the shores of the IDU. Despite certain misdirections delivered by the "news" messages received during Z-Day, the IDU stuck to its strategy of focusing only on cure missiles to rid the region of zombification. Keeping this strict focus proved highly effective, as demonstrated by our final results: Infected: 0.0% (zero zombies, 826 billion survivors) The nations of Lauchenoiria, Sunemia, Legionas, Aertemedia, Democratic Republic of Eiria, Maraix, Laeral, New Lusitania and the Algarves, -Astoria, Trive 38, Gardavasque and Libertas Omnium Maximus, among others, all chipped in even despite real-life complications and distractions to make sure the IDU survived the zombie apocalypse. In the end, the IDU was able to emerge from Z-Day with nary a blemish. Our Z-Day success is a testament to the continued endurance and resilience of the IDU as a region. Maraix, Laeral, Xiomera, and Gardavasque | |
The Democratic Federation of Lauchenoiria | Forum Downtime/Discord Activities Our regional forum is currently down. It is estimated it will take a week to get it back up as the provider has a skeleton staff for Thanksgiving weekend. In the meantime, we are having lots of discussions on our regional discord and there's now a server where you can use a bot to RP as your characters! Laeral, Xiomera, and Gardavasque | |
The Second Allied Provinces of Laeral | Just wanted to say "excellent work!" to Lauchenoiria for compiling this season's regional update, and to Eiria, Xiomera, and Slokais Islands for contributing articles as well. The new regional update is concisely written, entertaining, and very readable, and a great tool for outreach to our friends in other regions. Lauchenoiria, Xiomera, and Gardavasque | |
The Golden Sun Empire of Xiomera | Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends, and happy Thursday to our non-American friends 🦃 Lauchenoiria, United New England, Gardavasque, and Grand pacifican islands of cupid | |
Grand pacifican islands of cupid | Oh Thanks | |
The Second Allied Provinces of Laeral | Hey all, Thanks to Sanctaria's efforts, the regional forum and wiki should be back online. Forum activities and wiki roleplay can now resume, and if you haven't checked them out already, I encourage you to become involved! Just check out the links in the regional description. Maraix, Lauchenoiria, and Xiomera | |
The Golden Sun Empire of Xiomera | Also, we highly encourage everyone to join our regional Discord as that is where a good deal of RP discussion and regional socializing takes place. | |
The Golden Sun Empire of Xiomera | Democratic Times News Update: Aurora accused of attempt to kill Kerlian Councillors; nations designate environmental group as terrorist organization; trouble brewing on the Netlcoātl Islands as Xiomerans refuse to leave https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2228&p=21883#p21883 Maraix and Laeral | |
The Free Bears of Bears Armed | Pops in. Logs into nations. :) The map shows a nation called Iskiram, but I cant' find this: Answer? | |
The Second Allied Provinces of Laeral | ||
The Social Democracy of Gardavasque | And BTW, Bears Armed, the Ministry of Cartography has suspended map removals due to CTE-ing indefinitely. Yet another disruption to order during the worst year ever, 2020. | |
Spheric marble mallorca in the idu | Hello, | |
The Social Democracy of Gardavasque | Hey IDU! Feeling stuck at home? Sick of dreary and tiresome weather? Looking for adventure? You need to get out more. You need... The IDU Travel Channel. This thread is a place to highlight your nation's top attractions and most (or least!) visited destinations. Give us the fascinating details about your national parks, your historic landmarks, famous museums, and offbeat curiosities. Also on the Travel Channel: award-winning documentaries, guided tours of your nations and cities, and reality programming about real housewives of your nation. The IDU Travel Channel is place to share information and resources for consumers of travel and leisure throughout the IDU and around the universe, so we need to know all about your nation's best - and worst - airlines, cruises, resort hotels, restaurants, et cetera. Finally, nations are encouraged to submit their entries for inclusion at a coveted spot in the IDU Travel Channel's Top Ten rankings. Are you ready to welcome travelers to your nation? Tell us about all about it. Right here, on the IDU Travel Channel. Here: https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2246 Laeral, Xiomera, and United New England | |
New adriatico | Hi, I'm kind of new to this and would like to get involved. | |
The Second Allied Provinces of Laeral | Hey New Adriatico! Welcome to the IDU. We're known for our welcoming, active community and our many opportunities to get involved in roleplays involving your nation. The best (and most low-key) way to get involved in our region is to join our regional Discord, which can be found in the regional description at the top of this page. There you'll usually find someone from the region active, and maybe even a conversation going on! From there, you can explore our regional forum, where a lot of our roleplays go on, and our regional wiki, where people can write in-character articles about things in their nations. Looking forward to getting to know you soon! | |
The Social Democracy of Gardavasque | Welcome! ...And, yes, what Laeral said. I would add that finding a location on our map (https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2174) can be a good way of fitting in, since you'll establish relationships with those in closest proximity to you. HMU if you have any questions. | |
The Social Democracy of Gardavasque | ||
The United Federation of Slokais Islands | ||
The Liberal Democracy of Azaffran | I've been invited to become Ambassador to Forest, so I'll be relocating over there. TTFN, y'all! | |
The Tropical Paradise of Great Tequila Island | ||
The Republic of New Lusitania and the Algarves | Might have to do with their surplus of Pizza Deliveries, you never know. |